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Mark T. Tomczak @mark@mastodon.fixermark.com
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is popular because it's cocaine for ADHD. That's it. That's the whole story. This is not even a criticism.

"Where am I? Doesn't matter. I built a house. I punched a tree. I dug a hole. What's over there? Oooh, a forest. Ooh, a pig. I built a farm. I found a village. I raised a colony of scholars that teach ancient wisdom. I made my hole deeper. There were diamonds down there. I made a pickaxe. Oops I died. Oh well. What's that obsidian arch? I'll finish it. Oh look, a portal to hell. Oh hey, a desert. I found a tomb. Slenderman is following me. I killed him. I took his eye. I cleaned it with powder from hell. It led me to a portal to space. There's a space dragon. I killed it."

Literally all these things are equivalently important and meaningful in this game.
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 eth0 @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@mark i play minecraft on servers literally just so i can endlessly build railways
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Mark T. Tomczak @mark@mastodon.fixermark.com
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@jeder I have also compared Minecraft to "What happened to all the model-train folks when they stopped living in houses with big enough rooms to support a model train city."

(I cartograph. While everyone else in the group is building a big fully-stocked homestead and factory farm, I start building grids of maps and wander ever-wider circles in the world, always carrying a stack of spare blanks and item frames so I can slam down a green dot on points of interest). 😉
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